“Come the Swift” - New Single by The Scruffy Pooks - out 18th April.
New Album “Beltane” out 3rd May
Almost Elizabethan in its intricate turning strangeness, as if our green hearts weave into the high built wigs of old summer trees, studded with broaches of Swifts, Goldfinches and Sparrows. An album that echoes with the psychelelic strangeness of the best of the English folk tradition.
The Scruffy Pooks are Lady Betty Blight and Ben Hicks.
Listen to the single here
Released on Undergrowth Records 2025
New EP by Gold Valley Bench - Time and Honey - Out - Wed 26th March
You never dip your toe in the same river twice but Reading based lockkeeper Daniel Potter brings you the definitive sound of the Thames drifting from Spring into Summer; a crafted elegy of guitar lines twining round a witch's martyrdom, an indie flick evocation of Spring's Forget Me Knot's and a brilliant epiphany of mayflies, floating into sheep dip heaven. Jump aboard and float downstream with a piece of straw in your mouth until you rise way upstream. Where the server franchises and digital bit rate packages can never reach you.
Released on Undergrowth Records 2025 on Bandcamp